for Jack Mueller
i. Green Tea Party
Let’s take back
the flag
& celebrate the wind
Honor the paradox
of this imperfect
union
free for all
visible
& indivisible
ii. Take No Prisoners
Yes I want to
move to
a balanced bud jet
Borrowing
from the future’s
a furtive kind of pederasty
screwing our kids’
kids
Aint no excuse
unless it’s another war
& for war
we always say yes
iii. Highway 145 Apotheosis
Sitting on our bull butts
manipulating
pedals
& buttons & wheels
Looking out the windshield’s
as close to gods & goddesses
as we’re gonna get
this ride
iv. Manifest Destiny
Davenport built the first automobile
a horseless buggy, 1835, & so, if
there’s one ever clear American
icon, it’s on the road again
Exporting the regulated anarchy
of one vote, two cars, as a front for
the depleted precision of manu-
factured military arms virumque cano
Captain Barefoot identifies himself among the Union of Street Poets, Vincent St. John Local, Colorado Plateau, Aztlan Kuksu Brigade (Ret.), Cloud House, San Francisco, Shasta Nation, Pacific Rim.
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